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... Brahmans of course prefer that poetry which they believe to have been actually inspired ; while the Vaidyas ( who are in general perfect grammarians and good poets , but are not suffered to read any of the sa- cred writings except the ...
... Brahmans of course prefer that poetry which they believe to have been actually inspired ; while the Vaidyas ( who are in general perfect grammarians and good poets , but are not suffered to read any of the sa- cred writings except the ...
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... Brahmans . The achievements of Durga in her martial cha- racter as the patroness of Virtue , and her battle with a demon in the shape of a buffalo , are the subject of many episodes in the Puránas and Cáv- yas , or sacred and popular ...
... Brahmans . The achievements of Durga in her martial cha- racter as the patroness of Virtue , and her battle with a demon in the shape of a buffalo , are the subject of many episodes in the Puránas and Cáv- yas , or sacred and popular ...
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... Brahman and Vinata are also supposed to have been the parents of Arun , the charioteer of the Sun , and of the bird Garuda , the eagle of the great Indian Jove , one of whose epithets is Madhava . After this explanation , the Hymn will ...
... Brahman and Vinata are also supposed to have been the parents of Arun , the charioteer of the Sun , and of the bird Garuda , the eagle of the great Indian Jove , one of whose epithets is Madhava . After this explanation , the Hymn will ...
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... Brahman who read it with me was frequently stopped by his tears . We may be inclined , perhaps , to think , that the wild fables of idolaters are not worth knowing , and that we may be satisfied with mispending our time in learning the ...
... Brahman who read it with me was frequently stopped by his tears . We may be inclined , perhaps , to think , that the wild fables of idolaters are not worth knowing , and that we may be satisfied with mispending our time in learning the ...
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... Brahman young , who , when the heavenly boy In Vraja green and scented Gocul play'd , Partook each transient care , each flitting joy , And hand in hand through dale or thicket stray'd , By fortune sever'd from the blissful seat , Had ...
... Brahman young , who , when the heavenly boy In Vraja green and scented Gocul play'd , Partook each transient care , each flitting joy , And hand in hand through dale or thicket stray'd , By fortune sever'd from the blissful seat , Had ...
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Page 104 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: — men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude, — Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dun; maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain: These constitute a state; And sovereign Law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing...
Page 104 - What constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: MEN, high-minded MEN...
Page 265 - While sparkling cups delight our eyes, Be gay; and scorn the frowns of age. What cruel answer have I heard ! And yet, by heaven, I love thee still: Can aught be cruel from thy lip ? Yet say, how fell that bitter word From lips which streams of sweetness fill, Which nought but drops of honey sip ? Go boldly forth, my simple lay, Whose accents flow with artless ease, Like orient pearls at random strung : Thy notes are sweet, the damsels say ; But O ! far sweeter, if they please The nymph for whom these...
Page 116 - Come, charming maid ! and hear thy poet sing, Thyself the rose, and he the bird of spring; Love bids him sing, and Love will be obey'd. Be gay: too soon the flowers of spring will fade.
Page 74 - See yon fair groves that o'er Amana rise, And with their spicy breath embalm the skies ; Where every breeze sheds incense o'er the vales, And every shrub the scent of musk exhales!
Page 226 - A thousand nymphs with many a sprightly glance Form'd round the radiant wheels an airy dance, Celestial shapes ! in fluid light array'd ; Like twinkling stars their beamy sandals play'd , Their lucid mantles glitter'd in the sun, (Webs half so bright the silk-worm never spun...
Page 204 - Omniscient Spirit, whose all-ruling pow'r Bids from each sense bright emanations beam; Glows in the rainbow, sparkles in the stream, Smiles in the bud, and glistens in the flow'r That crowns each vernal bow'r; Sighs in the gale, and warbles in the throat...
Page 263 - Require the borrow'd gloss of art ? Speak not of fate : ah ! change the theme, And talk of odours, talk of wine, Talk of the flowers that round us bloom : 'Tis all a cloud, 'tis all a dream ; To love and joy thy thoughts confine, Nor hope to pierce the sacred gloom.
Page 202 - Th' impenetrable gloom of light intense, Impervious, inaccessible, immense, Ere spirits were infus'd or forms display'd, BREHM his own Mind survey'd, As mortal eyes (thus finite we compare With infinite) in smoothest mirrors gaze : Swift, at his look, a shape supremely fair Leap'd into being with a boundless blaze, That fifty suns might daze. Primeval Maya was the Goddess nam'd, Who to her sire, with Love divine inflam'd, A casket gave with rich Ideas fill'd, From which this gorgeous Universe he...
Page 97 - I view'd the heavenly maid ; And, rapt in wonder, said — ' The groves of Eden gave this angel birth ;' Her look, her voice, her smile, That might all Heaven beguile, Wafted my soul above the realms of earth: The star-bespangled skies Were open'd to my eyes ; scene?